​The Parishioner

Waiting. We’re not very good at it anymore. Maybe we never were. But in this instant-everything, “right-now” age, in which we live, we tend to get frustrated and impatient if we have to wait for any length of time. People will visit a website less often if it is slower than a close competitor by more than two hundred and fifty milliseconds. That’s .25 seconds. Way too long for any sane person to wait. Right? Waiting feels like time wasted. And who can afford to waste time these days? We all have too much to do and every second counts. Right?